The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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